Draconis: Spring Clean 2024 and onward

24th April 2024

I haven’t been finding much hobby time of late due to work etc. However, I found I had fun painting up the Deadzone Marauder – and while doing so I recalled that I had some old Ork Madboyz (somewhere).

I had some back in the late 80s, early 90’s but sadly they escaped me somehow (I still have quite a bit of my stuff from 1st ed Rogue Trader era on though). A decade or more back I picked up 9 madboyz from an online auction site. Now they were on my mind again I had to locate them – after much searching I found them again….

They all had a white coat of paint, in varying thicknesses….. Ten minis in total, nine madboyz and an interloper. One of the boyz was so mad he even had an arm on backwards 😊

So, into the Dettol they went. For a true spring Clean! Due to the fact I only had a couple of spare arms in my bits box I only risked one plastic arm at first – to make sure it did strip ok.

They cleaned up pretty well overall. Removing the white revealed that some of them had thick coats from previous paintjobs. After some careful scrubbing with Dettol (not water!) and an old toothbrush virtually all of the old paint came away. Some of the arms had to go in for a second soak as the white paint was really thick and still remained solid in some of the recesses. But I think they came up very cleanly.

A friend said that I should sell them now they are clean – however, if I did that it would mean that I don’t own them anymore, and that would make me a bit sad….. so they are going to get a paintjob. It may not be great, but I think that they deserve it.